Patrick Wilson
Associate Professor of Natural Resource Policy

Department of Conservation Social Sciences
College of Natural Resources
P.O. Box 441139
Moscow, ID  83844-1139
Phone:  (208) 885-7717 / Fax: (208) 885-6226
E-mail:  pwilson@uidaho.edu


Patrick Wilson's research interests include natural resource policy and politics, and comparative public policy;  politics of species conservation, tribal government management of natural resources, and water policy and politics.

CSS 504-03--Natural Resource Policy
The Department of Conservation Social Sciences will offer the graduate level course normally listed as POLS 562 Natural Resource Policy in spring semester 2006.

Political and institutional context for making natural resource policy; emphasis on interaction between private and public sectors and the federal, state, and tribal governments, including an examination of topical issues in natural resource politics.

Recent publications:

Wilson, P.I. and L.J. Carlson. 2004. Beyond Zero-Sum: Game Theory and National Forest Management, Social Science Journal Volume 41, No. 4.

Wilson, P.I. 2002. Tribes, States, and the Cooperative Management of Lake Watersheds: Lakes Coeur d’Alene and Flathead, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 32, No. 3, pp. 115-131.

Wilson, P.I. 2002. Native Peoples and the Management of Natural Resources in the Pacific Northwest: A Comparative Assessment, American Review of Canadian Studies, Volume 32, No. 3, pp. 397-414.

Wilson, P.I. 2001. Deregulating Endangered Species Protection, Society and Natural Resources, Volume 14, No. 2, pp. 161-171.

Wilson, P.I. 2000. The Clark Fork Settlement: Collaboration, Consensus, and Hydropower Project Relicensing, Environmental Practice, Volume 2, No. 2, pp. 203-211.

Wilson, P.I. 2000. Deficit Reduction as Causal Story: Strategic Politics and Welfare State Retrenchment, Social Science Journal, Volume 37, No. 1, pp. 97-112.

Recent Professional Meetings/Papers and Invited Panel Participation:

Wilson, P.I. 2004. Forward to the Past: Wolves and ESA Politics in the Northern Rockies, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Portland, Oregon.

Wilson, P.I. 2003. Beyond Zero-Sum: Game Theory and National Forest Management; Annual Meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Wilson, P.I. 2002. Saving Salmon Policy: Policy Theory Explanations of Snake River Salmon Recovery, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Bellevue, Washington.

Wilson, P.I. 2001. Native Peoples and Natural Resource Policy in the Pacific Northwest: Implications and Lessons, Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, Nevada.